Question

A bag contains 5 red marbles, 3 white marbles, and 4 blue marbles. what is the probability of randomly selecting a red marble, setting is aside, and then randomly selecting another red marble from the bag? Hint: It's not 5/12, 2/12, or 5/18 :(

Answer 1

Randomly selecting the first red marble is a 5/12 chance.

Picking the red marble again would be 1/3 or 4/12 chance

Explanation:

Answer 2

Technically it is 5/12, but as a percentage it would be 41.6666%